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We鈥檙e excited that UVic鈥檚 Visual Arts department is part of Victoria鈥檚 newest collective studio and gallery space: The Hourglass. Developed by Vancouver Island Visual Arts Society (who also run downtown鈥檚 ambitious 80-artist Rockslide Gallery),...
March 31, 2026
By focusing on BC鈥檚 historical HIV/AIDS crisis, the 探花系列 production In My Day highlighted collaboration between researchers, community and performance-makersNeon lights, club beats, a generation on the edge of disaster: when UVic鈥檚 Phoenix Theatre staged...
March 25, 2026
Let鈥檚 say it鈥檚 1912 and you鈥檙e a young, musically inclined girl who enjoys whistling . . . but your father says it isn鈥檛 鈥渓adylike鈥� to whistle: what do you do? If you鈥檙e Eleanor Gray, you embracethe song in your heart and pursue singing lessons...
March 23, 2026
After more than a century in the Vatican collection, a M茅tis model dog sled from the 1920s was repatriated on February 25, with Writing professor Gregory Scofield as the lead expert on the identification and return of the model to its community of origin.The...
